Wichita eagle., 1887-03-05
A CORE p ,rdeut of the North Amer

A CORE p bEdent OF inc Noitu hih0ii
can tells this story on Senator ingalls,:
Talking of congressman and war.
continued my friend s., reminds OF a
dream credited to Senator ingalls,. | was
down at Washington recently and got it
from one of the Senators, who was telling
it at ingalls, expense. 1t was the day or
two after ingalls, made that bitter speech
in which he threatened to deluge Great
Britain with blood. The papers and peace
folks and great .nany people in Wash
ington poi ed heap of fun ut him, and no
doubt created little reaction Of feeling .
his mind. You know it is mighty hard fuI
congressman when he Is about
to make speech to tell
whether he is going to hit public
feeling right, and after he has madeit. it is
sometimes still more difficult to tell wheth-
er he has struck n popular cord or made Il
big fool of himself Well, ingalls, dreamt
a session of the senate to consider relaliA-
tinn. Things seemed 10 have reached n
great crisis The galleries were jammed
with 60 lie anxiously awaiting the result.
The senate was divided between a war
party and a peace party.
"Inyalls was the leader of the former
His small. sharp, sour. cynical features
and the quick. hot motion of his head and
hands and mouth as he spoke were the ad
mir;.tiun of those grouped around him
among whom was Firginia's noble son
Riddleberger On one side of the gallery
were naval officers and ship contractors
inventors of guns and dynamite Blooms
and sub marine mines.
"The peace faction were represented oy
the floor by a large, venerable old man
with white hair aud beard No one seemet
IL Ike paying much attention to him. On
bis side of the gallery We're large nunibel
of quaint, gray haired citizens, many %
them women. They looked on in silence
Soon the retaliation bills came up Ingal
got off his acrid speech amid much nois,
applause from the war gallery. Then III,
gray old man arose.
Hiss sis, came from the gallery, ant
then man waited the crowd TO silence
saving: Lets hear what the old whit,
haired crank has TO say"
1.-THE old gentlemen moved the indein
lite postponement Of all retalistion meas
urcs, in order to adopt an address to thu
government of Great Britain. which h,
read The add ess merely said that tn
government and The people Of the Domin
ion of Canada claim that the United State
had violated certain treaty obligations rela
tive to the fisheries. The government arr
people Of the United States claim that Gel
tain of their treaty rights have been viols
ed by the Canadians. In the name of il
terna,ional peace and justice, to ali. tn
government of The United States invii,
the government Of Great Britain Ia joint
submit all POINTS al Issue To an information
al commission.
There WIS \ howl from the war gallery
Sentiment al SIT in towards the old ma,
Senators rushed away from Ingalls, 10 b
side of the chamber ingalls, lsunches! on
into another war speech. growing mo-
desperate with ever. sentence. vainly ,r.
ing to regain his support At last on
Riddleharyer remained at his side. Whs
he awoke from the dream he WAS in Il
misidle If the floor in bis nigh, gown. I
had one knee on small plaster of paf
Iiot. a mantle ornament. aud the other {
a small bust Of King George III. In al
hand he had poker and the other dun
bell. He was doing the work so .ffec'us
Iyas 10 ender further retaliation sgain
Great Britain wholly unnecessary.